Word: tempos
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...body punching strategy was particularly effective for Norton in the last round, when he upped the tempo to impress the Las Vegas crowd...
...THIRD MOVEMENT was a decided come-down, although that admittedly was largely the composer's fault. It was a rather silly piece of music--all surface, full of melodramatic cadences and changes of tempo. Although both Chan and the orchestra played with firmness and polish, nobody seemed to know what to do with the music--and their hesitance did nothing to make Bruch's bombastic posturing any more convincing...
...Cleveland Quartet, Emanuel Ax pianist, RCA). This concert perennial is easily recognized by its opening second movement theme, a sound- alike for the late 1940s popular song Nature Boy. The quintet is often said to reflect the composer's sunny, lyric disposition, and even the swift changes in tempo and sudden clouds of melancholy cannot dampen the work's high spirits. Both the Juilliard with Firkusny and the Cleveland with Ax are faithful to the Dvorak spirit. The older Juilliard brings a muscular exuberance to the piece, while the youthful members of the Cleveland achieve a light, effortless...
...grief than the desolation of war. The moment comes when the narrator sights an "endless" column of Russian soldiers marching under guard. These are the former German P.O.W.s who were dispatched to the Stalinist camps for the crime of having been captured by the enemy. Abruptly, the relentless drumbeat tempo of the meter shifts to a solemn pace...
...female. In the cat family, the release of the eggs for fertilization requires a triggering mechanism. The device is supplied by prickly spines that cover the penis and rake out the female on its withdrawal. A piercing cry invariably and understandably follows. The pregnancy cycle is brisk in tempo. A litter conceived in February is born in April and reared by July, with the mother all ready for another go. It will surprise some readers to find that cats do not kill by instinct and initially do not know that rodents and birds are tasty fare. Hunting is learned behavior...